Professors ask [UVa Pres] Sullivan to stop quoting Jefferson [ed]

Theresa Sullivan, the far left president of UVA and coauthor of a book with Elizabeth Warren, has done a terrific job of transforming UVA from a tolerant moderate institution with a top academic reputation to a hard left indoctrination center. She used the fake Rolling Stone rape article to put a chokehold on the fraternity system. She has filled the University with extremist leftist professors from Ivy League schools. Now the inmates she brought to the faculty are turning on the warden.

If he could speak from the grave, Thomas Jefferson would probably have “founder of the University of Virginia” removed from his tombstone. It is probably only a matter of time before the statues of Jefferson are removed from the grounds and the mention of his name becomes a hate crime.

The state of Virginia has a lot of leftest in control. Losing Uva is just another sign. Hopefully we can turn things around, but with more people moving in from the NE.Its not going to be easy. With Northeasterners comes establishment money and they promote their own. I do see a lot of people fighting back, so there is a chance. The Virginia media is super liberal, not just in northern Va. Not sure about the western part of the state. Sad to see a people displaced in their own state.

How long until Washington and Lee University gets renamed?

He founded the school. If the current President wishes to quote her predecessor’s order for more toilet paper for the students, she is free to do that.

I toured Monticello a few weeks ago and greatly enjoyed the tour. The tour guide, a man who happened to be black did not dwell at all on Jefferson’s owing slaves and didn’t even mention Sally Hemings.

What idiocy!! Guess these well-educated Professors (?) never heard about the historical context within which America's Founders found themselves. Neither did the Professors' "education" provide them with the following synopsis of the enormous contributions they made toward eradicating slavery from these shores and creating a constitutional republic which could, ultimately, affirm and protect the rights of ALL people. Clearly, these uninformed persons should be reading Jefferson's Autobiography, especially that portion which states:

"The first establishment in Virginia which became permanent was made in 1607. I have found no mention of negroes in the colony until about 1650. The first brought here as slaves were by a Dutch ship; after which the English commenced the trade and continued it until the revolutionary war. That suspended...their future importation for the present, and the business of the war pressing constantly on the (Virginia) legislature, this subject was not acted on finally until the year 1778, when I brought a bill to prevent their further importation. This passed without opposition, leaving to future efforts its final eradication."

Jefferson also observed:

"Where the disease [slavery] is most deeply seated, there it will be slowest in eradication. In the northern States, it was merely superficial and easily corrected. In the southern, it is incorporated with the whole system and requires time, patience, and perseverance in the curative process."

He explained that, "In 1769, I became a member of the legislature by the choice of the county in which I live [Albemarle County, Virginia], and so continued until it was closed by the Revolution. I made one effort in that body for the permission of the emancipation of slaves, which was rejected: and indeed, during the regal [crown] government, nothing [like this] could expect success."

One more quotation, cited in David Barton's work on the subject of the Founders and slavery, which also cites the fact that there were laws in the State of Virginia which prevented citizens from emancipating slaves, (can be found at Barton's web site shown later herein)is this one from Jefferson:

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. . . . The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded who permits one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other. . . . And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep for ever. . . . The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. . . . [T]he way, I hone [is] preparing under the auspices of Heaven for a total emancipation."

For an excellent and factual record of the Founders' views on the matter of slavery (especially those of Washington and Jefferson} visit David Barton's site (wallbuilders).

A review of the factual, written history of the period in order to understand the tremendous contributions of the Founders to the "extinction" of slavery in America is essential to any meaningful discussion. Barton has has utilized the record in writing that exists to inform any who wish to arm themselves with knowledge. One source he does not quote, I believe, is the famous "Speech on Conciliation" by Edmund Burke before the British Parliament, wherein he admonished the Parliament for its Proposal to declare a general enfranchisement of the slaves in America.

Burke rather sarcastically observed that should the Parliament carry through with the proposed Proposal: "Slaves as these unfortunate black people are, and dull as all men are from slavery, must they not a little suspect the offer of freedom from that very nation (England) which has sold them to their present masters? from that nation, one of whose causes of quarrel with those masters is their refusal to deal any more in that inhuman traffic?" He continued: "An offer of freedom from England would come rather oddly, shipped to them in an African vessel, which is refused an entry into the ports of Virginia or Carolina, with a cargo of three hundred Angola negroes. It would be curious to see the Guinea captain attempting at the same instant to publish his proclamtion of liberty and to advertise his sale of slaves."

Ahhh, how knowledge of the facts can alter one's opinion of the revisionist history that has been taught for generations in American schools (including its so-called "law schools"!!!

Human beings are allotted ONLY A TINY SLIVER OF TIME ON THIS EARTH. Each finds the world and his/her own community/nation existing as it is. If lawyers and judges and "professors" educated themselves (in this day of the Internet) on the history of civilization and America's real history, and if they used that knowledge and the resulting understanding, to do as much on behalf of liberty for ALL people as did Thomas Jefferson and America's other Founders, the world in the next century would be a better place.

Remember, Thomas Jefferson was only 33 years old when he penned our Declaration of Independence which capsulized a truly revolutionary idea into a simple statement that survives to this day to inspire people all over the world to strive for liberty!

Before slamming the Founders in such ignorant pronouncements, the Professors should read the prolific writings on the founding period for a first-hand knowledge of their contributions. In his lifetime, they might then be qualified to speak about them.

When a man cast his eye on public office a certain rottenness sets in

Paraphrasing
TJ

“. . . I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

There you go!